Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 5:53pmAny ideas on what numbers will be performed on the Tonys this year ?
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Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#2re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 6:44pmAll I know is that on the roof of Radio City Music Hall, Jenifer Holiday will be performing songs from Pirate Queen and Oh, Carrie.
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#2re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 7:12pm
Are you serious Trekkie2?
Since it's Jenifer I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.
#3re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 7:15pm
Mary Poppins - Medley, or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - (since it's the main one they've been doing)
Grey Gardens - something featuring Christine Ebersole
Spring Awakening - Depends on how P.C they want to go. I'm guessing one of the upbeat numbers. Totally F***** would be best I think, but they'll probably go with "Bitch" or "Junk"
Curtains - haven't seen it
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
#4re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 7:16pmThere is already a long thread on this.
#5re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 7:23pmSpring is definatly not doing F'd. The Tonys censored DRS when Norbert Leo Butz said "hummers in my hummer" and "really classy ****" I think SA will end up doing Touch Me. and of course theres always the option of a medley.
#6re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 7:43pmYou're probably right - but personally I think it would be a bad call for them to do a ballad - like when Caroline or Change did "Lot's Wife" - bad choice. It needs to be something with a real B'way "wow" factor, not necessairily the prettiest, or most dramatic song.
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
#7re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 8:16pmI want "Grey Gardens" to do "Another Winter..." with Christine and Mary Louise, but I have a feeling they'll end up doing "The Revolutionary Costume For Today."
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#8re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 8:21pmI have a feeling Grey Gardens will do something from Act I that features more people from the show since it got 10 nominations. I think Girl Who Has Everything into Five-Fifteen.
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#9re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 8:40pm
Curtains will probably do "Show People"
MP-Supercalif or Step in Time
SA-I think they'll do "Touch Me" minus the touching or "Song of Purple Summer" or "My Junk" (Tend to think "My Junk")
GG-WIll do something from Act 2 (wish they'd do "Around the World"-but after the last time on CBS, they won't want that.)
Tend to think "Revolutionary Costume" or "Another Winter" (they may do a medley of "Entering Grey Gardens" into something else)
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#10re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 8:42pmWhat about "The House We Live In" for GG if they want something featuring more of the cast?
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#11re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 8:56pm
Dramarama, I was kidding, but if it actually happens, I came up with it first. You're all witnesses.
Is there a reason that nobody is speculating about revival performances?
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One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#12re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 9:07pm
Fine, Trekkie, I'll speculate revival performances JUST for you.
No question that Chorus Line will probably do "One" or "I Hope I Get It" Not sure about the other shows, I don't know them that well.
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jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#13re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/17/07 at 9:11pmI'd love for 110 to do "Raunchy". Audra is simply amazing in that one. My guess is they'll do a more company-centered number like "The Rain Song" though.
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LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#14re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 4:13am
Curtains - "Show People"
Mary Poppins - as someone else on this board put it, "SupercalifragiCRAP"!
Grey Gardens - "The Cake I Had" (haha, yeah right, but I really like MLW's performance)
Spring Awakening - "Touch Me" (They did it on the View I think and it was totally appropriate)
110 in the Shade - I don't know this show well, but I would bet "Raunchy", because Audra is BOMB and Cullum participates
Company - COME ON "BEING ALIVE" !!
A Chorus Line - "I Hope I Get It"
The Apple Tree (by total act of God) - "Gorgeous"
#15re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 5:52amWhat happened during "Around the World" on CBS?
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jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#16re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 6:09amLuPonatic ~ That's my one reason to hope they'll do "Raunchy". With Audra and John both nominated, it kind of makes sense to do that one. Because she's barely in "The Rain Song" and definitely doesn't sing.
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#17re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 6:09am
What will LB do?
I'm thinking that they'd do "Omigod you guys!"
But theres no number with LBB, Orfeh and Borle in it together.
I thought they could also do "Bend and Snap" because LBB and Orfeh are in it, it has some alright choreography, it's one of the more catchy songs in the score. I also thought they could do the bit of dialogue before it with the UPS guy to show off Hach's score.
I'd also like to see "So Much Better" or "Legally Blonde Remix"
A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.
#18re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 6:45amLEGALLY BLONDE wont be performing at the Tonys. No Best Musical nomination.
My 2007/2008 Season:
Grey Gardens (7/5)
110 in the Shade (7/6)
Mary Poppins (7/7)
Xanadu (7/7)
Deuce (7/8)
Spamalot (7/8)
Jersey Boys (8/25)
The Year of Magical Thinking (8/25)
Mauritius (11/2)
Young Frankenstein (11/3)
Rock 'N' Roll (11/3)
Pygmalion (11/4)
Mauritius (11/10)
Mauritius (11/21) Mauritius (11/21)
Sunday in the Park with George (3/6)
South Pacific (3/7)
Gypsy (3/8)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (3/9)
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#19re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 11:48am
Well-it wasn't so much during as after. She got criticized for singing "damn" and "goddamn" on TV.
I don't think CBS will be broadcasting that again soon with those problems.
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"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#20re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 11:59am
COMPANY will likely do a medley, or perhaps just the title song... which is a mistake. If they want to sell tickets, Raul needs to sing "Being Alive".
If THE APPLE TREE performs, its a given that Kristin will be performing "Gorgeous".
If GG just wanted to showcase the two nominees, they'd be wisest to do the opening of the show. Its humorous, features both, and is nice. It'd be difficult for them to do a medley of sorts, due to the costume change Ebersole would need... the songs would have to be limited to one act.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#21re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 12:03pmCompany IS doing "Being Alive". Raul is singing it, but with the orchestra - not his castmates.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#22re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 12:05pmtimote, are you referring to "The Girl Who Has Everything"? That's not really a number, per se.
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#23re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 12:12pmSmaxie, are you Raul Esparza? Come on, fess up! :O)
#24re: Musical Numbers On the Tonys
Posted: 5/18/07 at 12:18pm
* Raul Esparza, the star of "Company," will sing "Being Alive" on the Tony telecast. But he'll be performing without the rest of the cast members, who, in the revival, play all the musical instruments. Apparently, the producers of "Company" don't want to have to pay the other actors to appear on the Tonys. So they've asked Jonathan Tunick if they can use his original 1970 orchestrations for "Being Alive," which will be performed by the orchestra at Radio City Music Hall.
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